A Pennsylvanian lawmaker has been caught on video halting a public meeting after being touched on the arm.

Video of the meeting shows State Representative Daryl Metcalfe objecting to fellow State Representative Matt Bradford tapping his arm slightly while talking, as he interjected Mr Bradford mid-sentence to announce - he is a heterosexual.

“I have a wife, I love my wife. I don't like men as you might," Mr Metcalfe began.

"Stop touching me all the time."

The unexpected outburst caused laughs around the meeting, however Mr Metcalfe was not amused.

"Keep your hands to yourself. Like if you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of the aisle that might like it. I don't," said Mr Metcalfe.

Mr Metcalfe's comments are now under scrutiny from the Governor of Pennsylvania.

Tom Wolf took to Twitter to share his thoughts on Mr Metcalfe's remarks, saying they were "offensive" and "discriminatory".

"I urge House leadership to re-examine whether it is appropriate for him to continue controlling a committee that oversees civil rights legislation," Mr Wolf said.

A gay and transgender rights group as well as a health care workers' union have requested the Republican Party strip him of his duties, according to the Pennsylvanian publication The Morning Call.

Outspoken conservative Queensland MP Bob Katter has again dumbfounded the Australian public with a bizarre suggestion that legalising gay-marriage will somehow result in teenage boys being forced to wear dresses to school.

Speaking in the Australian House of Representatives during the debate on passing a bill to legalise same-sex marriage, Mr Katter said: "Now if you want to throw a young lad between the ages of nine or 10 and the age of 15, and make him go to school wearing a dress, you seriously mess with his head."

The comments from Mr Katter come just weeks after he highlighted the frequency which Queenslanders are eaten by crocodiles as the reason he did not have time to worry about the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia - which he opposes.

"I mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I am concerned," Mr Katter said at a press conference last month.

"But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in north Queensland."

The clip of Mr Katter on ABC's Insider show quickly went viral online.

Mr Katter has long campaigned for a crocodile cull in northern Queensland, to no avail.